New data from TeleGeography’s Ethernet Pricing Service reveal that while Ethernet over SONET or SDH can offer guaranteed latency and restoration times, those attributes can come at a steep price. The market-research firm says it surveyed key routes and found that 100-Mbps Ethernet over SONET/SDH services cost an average of 50% more than Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS) services.

Telegeography says that while Ethernet over SONET/SDH cost more than EoMPLS on all routes, the markup was particularly high in the U.S., where a 100-Mbps Ethernet service between Miami and New York delivered over SDH/SONET cost more than twice as much as EoMPLS.

The accompanying chart offers a more detailed comparison.

TeleGeography’s Ethernet Pricing Service benchmarks the price of long-haul Ethernet service for large enterprises. The service provides detailed Ethernet pricing data by carrier, by port capacity, and by presentation on over 60 key routes.

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